Slugline 2

From the Slugline Blog:

Slugline 2 is a new app that replaces the old Slugline for Mac. It has a slick new UI, which includes a lovely dark mode. Big new features include: a drag-and-drop outline, an awesome new timeline, color-coded notes, Final Draft import/export, and Live Compare for tracking changes.

Maybe the most important new feature is the price: Slugline 2 is a free download, and works without watermarks or limitations until you pass page six, at which point you can upgrade to Unlimited Writing.

All this without changing what made the original Slugline so beloved: Slugline 2 is easy to use, free from distractions, and based entirely on the plain-text Fountain screenplay format.

Read the whole post to learn more about the new features. I’m really proud of this app, and of helping to create the Fountain screenplay format.

Download Slugline 2 for free. For the first week only, the Unlimited Writing upgrade is 20% off. But hey:

If all you write are short films, you may never need to upgrade! That’s entirely cool with us.

As someone who got his start making short films and still loves the form, this makes me particularly happy. Please please please use Slugline 2 without paying if you write and/or make short films.

Slugline on iPhone and iPad

From the Slugline blog:

Today is a big day.

Ever since we released Slugline, the most frequent request we’ve had was to get Slugline on iOS.

It took a long time, because we wanted to do it right. We realized that we needed to re-write scrolling, so it would be fast and smooth. We knew we had to speed up pagination. We wanted to support fancy new iOS 11 things like split-screen and drag-and-drop.

We did all those things. And now Slugline for iOS is available in the App Store for $19.99.

One thing I’ve found interesting as we’ve been working on this: in the early days of Slugline, folks would often request an “iPad app.” We never really thought about Slugline for iPhone, just iPad. But, of course, that changed, with bigger and more capable phones, but also with the emerging collective sense that a phone really is a productivity power tool. I bet writers will use Slugline on iPhone more than on iPad.

Anyway, that’s enough out of me. Go get it!

Slugline 1.2

Slugline 1.2 is a free update to my minimalist screenwriting app, available now on the Mac App Store. The big new features are Scene Numbers, and a massive performance overhaul that sets the stage for still more cool new things to come. Lots of bug fixes too.

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— Slugline (@SluglineApp) December 19, 2015

Read more at the Slugline Blog.

Slugline Back to School Sale: 40% Off For Two Days

Slugline is on sale! Allow myself to quote myself from the Slugline Blog:

Last year, we received a nice email from a film student at NYU asking about an educational discount. Unfortunately, there’s no mechanism for this in the App Store (except the volume educational pricing, which we do participate in), so we hatched a plan to do a back to school sale that anyone could take advantage of.

Does the timing actually make any sense? Are you even a student? Who cares? Slugline is on sale for 40% off through Thursday. That’s $23.99 instead of the usual $39.99.

Take advantage of this sale whether your definition of “ramen” is microwaved packets or $18 bowls of stewed pork belly.

Slugline 1.1.0

Slugline 1.1.0 is now available on the Mac App Store.

Yes, it's been a while since our last update. We've been busy working on some very cool long-term projects, including some exciting new features for Slugline, but this update fixes a couple of nasty bugs that we just recently cracked.

You can read the full list of new fixes and features on the Slugline Blog.

If you have yet to try Slugline, here's a brief tutorial showing how simple it can be to write a screenplay in an app with no buttons: